When we last left our intrepid heroes David Innes had been rescued from the clutches of those nasty Korsars and Tarzan and crew of the dirigible 0220 were heading back to the surface world but Jason Gridley refused to leave a man behind and vowed to stay in Pellucidar until missing crewman Wilhelm von Horst…
Tag: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tanar of Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
First published as a six part serial for Blue Book Magazine in 1929, the third book of the Pellucidar series shifts its focus away from David Innes to a native of the Earth’s Core by the name of Tanar. This installment has one of the more awkward narrative devices employed by Burroughs that leads to the…
Tarzan Goes to India (1962)
In Tarzan Goes to India Sy Weintraub decided he wanted to go with a leaner less muscular Tarzan and so cast Jock Mahoney to play the Ape Man this time around and who funnily enough actually played the primary villain in the previous film Tarzan the Magnificent. Also returning is director John Guillermin who helmed Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure…
Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) – Review
In this sequel to Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure, producer Sy Weintraub continues to make gritty character driven stories starring Tarzan, one that really captures much of the tone of the Burroughs books, and though this Tarzan doesn’t run into any lost cities, he is more in keeping with the intelligent and honorable hero from the books, as…
Pellucidar: Edgar Rice Burroughs – Book Review
When last we saw David Innes, he was stranded with his Iron Mole in the Sahara desert. Lucky for him a friendly group of Arabic travelers befriended him and helped rig up a gantry to send him and his Mahar “companion” back to the Earth’s core. If you were to make a list of defining…